Wednesday, 19 December 2012

I seem to have been doing a bit more speaking than writing recently, and I just wanted to publish the decks for attendees (or anyone else interested) to find. The two talks were:

Getting to grips with SharePoint 2013 apps (SharePoint Saturday UK)

What’s new in SharePoint 2013 for devs (SharePoint User Group UK)

There’s around 50% overlap in the decks (mainly because apps *are* such a big part of what’s new in SP2013 for devs), but the “What’s new” talk covers other topics also. I’ll generally be blogging in detail about most of this stuff (or have done already in some cases), but here are some more detail if you’re wondering if anything in the slide decks could be useful to you:

3 key decisions to make on apps (for any company implementing SharePoint 2013)

App development fundamentals/app hosting options

Apps and SSL

How users obtain apps

Developing SharePoint-hosted apps

Developing cloud apps

Possible reasons to need a cloud app

5 lessons learnt developing apps

Side note - I’ve given a similar talk a few times now, but each time the session has 30-40% of new stuff in it as I learn more and form deeper opinions. Frankly the topic is so deep that I could imagine speaking/writing about it regularly for the next 2 years with deeper and better info each time.

But, I don’t particularly want to focus on apps exclusively – there are too many other interesting things to write/talk about. Which is why I included a Display Templates/JSLink demo in my “What’s new” talk.

3 key decisions to make on apps (for any company implementing SharePoint 2013)

Display Templates (aka JSLink, aka Client Side Rendering)

Demo showing a standard SharePoint list being rendered in a custom way (using a jQuery UI accordion)

Managed navigation

Cross-site publishing

I learnt a few things putting the demos together for these talks, so have some detailed blog posts in the queue. Thanks to all who came to these talks, and asked questions/gave feedback etc. – much appreciated :)

About Me

I'm an independent SharePoint/.Net consultant in London, UK, currently acting as Head of Development at Content and Code, a UK-based SharePoint specialist.
I've worked with Microsoft technologies for around 12 years and am MCSD.Net and SharePoint certified. My blog focuses on the architecture/development aspects of working with SharePoint.